Alain Tanner’s first English-language work finds the director trading his native Switzerland for the windswept beauty of Ireland, and constitutes a kind of homecoming for this auteur who began his career at the British Film Institute, inspired by the Free Cinema Movement.MORE about <em>Light Years Away</em>

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon talks about her new Art Wall with former BAMPFA director Jacquelynn Baas, who curated the project. They will address the artist’s long and innovative career and her retrospective assessment of Supergraphics, which she created by mixing Swiss graphic design principles with West Coast Pop stylings, and shaped the history of design.MORE about Barbara Stauffacher Solomon and Jacquelynn Baas in Conversation

On the planet Solaris, scientists believe the ocean’s surface has an intelligence that can absorb human memory and materialize the objects of our thoughts. Psychologist Chris Kelvin joins the veteran cosmonauts in the Solaris project only to find them maddened from years of literally cohabitating with their unconscious desires.MORE about <em>Solaris</em>

Solaris

Enjoy a performance by renowned Oakland dancer, musician, and author Brontez Purnell. Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years.MORE about Black Life - Brontez Purnell

Enjoy a day of speakers, awards, poster sessions, and networking focused on cutting-edge aging research and technologies. The UC Berkeley Aging Research and Technology Innovation Summit will highlight the educational and research mission of the University of California and its diverse and significant impact on improving the well-being of older adults.MORE about UC Berkeley Aging Research and Technology Innovation Summit

Shards of memories — dreams of an individual, collective nightmares—do not merely haunt Andrei Tarkovsky's most challenging work, they are the film, which invents, as Ingmar Bergman noted, “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream.”MORE about <em>The Mirror</em>

On a microscopic level, every function of life is performed by biological macromolecules. To understand how these molecular machines work, it is necessary to know the three-dimensional structure of their constituent protein complexes. MORE about Controlling electron beams with lasers

One of the key works of eighties European cinema, Alain Tanner’s poem/film in praise of solitude and the flâneur finds a protagonist able to happily unmoor himself from work and consumerist obligation, and to instead spend time “sleeping, walking, dreaming.”MORE about <em>In the White City</em>

By the eighties, for Michelangelo Antonioni to make a love story is necessarily to make a mystery, as well as a bit of science fiction. Identification of a Woman centers around an improbability: Niccolo, a film director, is searching for both the perfect star and the perfect woman in his life.MORE about <em>Identification of a Woman</em>

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media for the annual open house. BCNM invites students, faculty and staff to check out some of the exciting new media research taking place on campus.MORE about BCNM Fall 2018 Open House

While exploring a volcanic island on a yachting expedition, a troubled young woman named Anna disappears, leaving her lover Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti) and close friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) to search in vain, and fall in love. L’avventura unfolds against Anna’s very palpable absence, a love story in a void.MORE about <em>L’avventura</em>

A sci-fi tale that unwinds in the environs of the soul takes the form of a nightmarish quest for nothing less than truth itself. A writer and a scientist follow a shaven-headed “stalker” into forbidden territory, a dangerous wilderness known as the Zone.MORE about <em>Stalker</em>

Tyler Ramsey

Margaret Atwood's classic, and timely, novel The Handmaid's Tale has been selected as the focus of this year's On the Same Page program at UC Berkeley. Atwood will kick off the program with a lecture in the first week of classes, giving food for thought to animate and inform ongoing discussions of her work throughout the fall term.MORE about <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> Escapes from Its Book, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Come check in on summer visitors like warblers, orioles, and hummingbirds, and be on the lookout for fledglings recently hatched in the botanical garden. Quarterly bird walks are led by Research Affiliate and former Associate Director of Collections and Horticulture Chris Carmichael.MORE about Summer Bird Walk

The 83-year-old Michelangelo Antonioni returned to filmmaking after a ten-year absence (triggered by a debilitating stroke that left him unable to speak) with a treatise on beauty. Its four separate episodes, set in France and Italy, are based on stories in Antonioni’s collection That Bowling Alley on the Tiber: Tales of a Director.MORE about <em>Beyond the Clouds</em>